--- title: She starts with the White Rabbit, nervous at first with the two big… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: She starts with the White Rabbit, nervous at first with the two big creatures pressing close on each side, but braver as she goes on. Who acts: Alice, two big creatures. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, two big creatures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:2 # text = She starts with the White Rabbit, nervous at first with the two big creatures pressing close on each side, but braver as she goes on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 16 pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 braver brave ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 on on ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Alice | | | | | with the White Rabbit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rabbit=Subeventuality | | 2 | **press** | gerund | the two big creatures *not said here* | | | | | on each side; close *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | | 3 | **go on** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:2`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/20-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2/)